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...entrée into the stimulating atmosphere of Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, and access to the fabulous astronomical complex in Southern California. There, all within easy driving distance of Los Angeles, the world's greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation) wide-angle scope. On Mount Wilson is a 100-in. telescope, one of the world's largest, and a 60-in. instrument that would be the pride of most other observatories. The twin 90-ft. antennas of one of the world...
...half a century after Sir Francis Gallon linked them with genetics, and helped to lay the foundations of a science now called dermatoglyphics. Dr. Harold Cummins of Tulane University noted a distinctive pattern in victims of mongolism (Down's syndrome). Another Tulane team, led by Dr. Alfred R. Hale, showed that many patients with inborn heart defects had palm-ridge abnormalities, whereas those with heart disease or disorders acquired after birth usually had normal prints...
Chris Wickens defeated Penn's Art Haney 5 to 3 at 177, but Bill Hale retaliated with a 9-4 decision over Jeff Grant of Harvard at 191. Heavyweight Tack Chace frosted the cake for the Crimson by blanking Dave Connolly 12 to 0. The victory ran Harvard's record...
...Maine's Penobscot Bay, he decided that he might not be able to serve another six years with all the "zeal, ability and conscientiousness" he demanded of himself. A onetime hockey player and junior varsity oarsman, he returned in 1964 to Britain's Henley Regatta with other hale members of the Harvard '14 crew that had won the Grand Challenge Cup 50 years earlier. Asked by a young newsman last week if he was feeling his years, Salty beamed: "I'll take you on any time." He probably could...
...Brown, who still rankled at his short tenure, could not resist a farewell blast: "Individual board members have forced decisions and taken unilateral action not consistent with good museum administration." Not so, replied Ed Carter, president of the board of trustees and head of California's Broadway-Hale stores. "The board's decision to request Brown's resignation was based primarily on his demonstrated inability to deal adequately with the administrative problems of a major art museum...